Ask meat eaters and most would likely agree that one of the carnivorous delights non-meat-eaters are most missing out on is bacon. Salty, smoky, chewy, delectable on sandwiches, crumbled up in recipes ...

As an avid gardener and (very) amateur cook, learning how to grow edible mushrooms at home seemed like a no-brainer. Little did I know how little I knew. I ordered fungi guru Paul Stamets’ definitive ...

NEW YORK - Fungi are so prominent they have their own kingdom, just like plants and animals. Kingdom fungi includes mold, yeasts and mushrooms. While on the path to a more sustainable future, ...

Israeli food tech start-up Mush Foods claims it is propelling the “meat-plus” movement to the mainstream of foodservice and food retail. A portfolio company of the Strauss Group Kitchen FoodTech Hub, ...

Ecovative Design will expand its AirMycelium technology to “introduce new, high-value mycelium crops to the mushroom farming industry and accelerating the growth of the mycelium materials sector,” ...

A new study has found that the gene-editing tool CRISPR can be used to improve the properties of Fusarium venenatum, a fungus ...

What is a mushroom, exactly? Ask the average consumer and they’ll likely reply that mushrooms are short stems with lid-like caps on the top, found in the produce section as well as growing in the wild ...

Shiitake mushrooms at Mueller's Mushrooms in Guatay, Calif. (Alan Nakkash / For The Times; typography and illustration by Selina Saldivar / For The Times) As an avid gardener and (very) amateur cook, ...